COMPOSITIONS & TRANSCRIpTions
Selected Compositions
A complete list of Yvar Mikhashoff’s compositions can be accessed here.
Beggars’ Songs (1969) for voice and piano
Offering (Carl Sandburg)
Rebuff (Carl Sandburg)
The white birds (W. Butler Yeats)
Interlude
Alms (Anna Morrow Lindbergh)
Beggars (John Ackerman-Jones)
A time of waiting (Robert Graves)
Epilogue (Carl Sandburg)
Canciones de Lorca (1970) for voice and piano
Concerto (rev. 1976) for viola and chamber orchestra
Listen to live performance with the Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh (Edward Leonard, conductor) and Tatjana Mead Chamis, viola soloist
Dances for Davia I (1958) for flute and piano
Overture
Waltz for a rainy day
Amy’s Piece
Sergei’s Bourrée no. I
Yellow Waltz
Gypsy Dance
Sad doll
Tag, and tired
Dances for Davia II (1979) for flute and piano
Prelude for a princess
Humming Song
David's Pavane
Sergei's Bourrée no. 2
Silver waltz
Magic wind-dance
The song of the blue fairy
Grand Finale
Elemental Figures (1990) for piano
Diviner
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Listen to Winston Choi (Purchase CD here):
Flowers for Joan Mitchell (1988) for violin, percussion and piano
Sunflowers
No daisies
Bluet, bluet, bluet
Two sunflowers
Frutta Erbarggi (1971) for soprano voice, flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, English horn, horn, cello, bass and percussion
In memoriam: Benjamin Britten (1977) for high voice, oboe and cello
Night Dances (1985)
Version 1 for String Trio
Version 2 for Alto Flute, Trumpets (2), Trombones (3), Percussion, Piano
Prelude, Variations and Fugue (1978) for cello
Rosenkranzlieder (1969) (Georg Trakl) for soprano and piano
(also arranged for soprano and string quartet)
An die Schwester
Nähe des Todes
Amen
Sebastian im Traum (1969) (Georg Trakl) for soprano and piano
(also arranged for soprano, 2 violins, viola, cello, harp)
Nachtlied
Untergang
Im Park
Seis caprichos (1968) (Federico García Lorca) for soprano and piano
Adivinanza de la guitarra
Candíl
Crótalo
Chumbera
Pita
Cruz
Shadows and Dialogues of Melisande (1973) (Federico García Lorca) for soprano, speaker, oboe, horn, cello and percussion
Windwife (1974) for voice, flute, viola, vibraphone, glockenspiel, piano, and percussion
Winds
Déha by the sea (Serbo-Croatia)
Si la nieve resbaia (Spain)
Blow, blow, thou winter wind (Britain, William Shakespeare)
The air was once about to die (German cabaret, Christian Morgenstern, translated by Neal Hatch)
Es pfeift der Wind
Mary on the Moor
The wind on the danube (Hungary)
La plume sénvole au vent (France)
A ship was sailing (Russian)
Selected Transcriptions
A complete list of Yvar Mikhashoff’s transcriptions at the University at Buffalo Music Library can be accessed here.
Wirtshaus Gartenwalzer (Tavern Garden Waltz from Alban Berg’s Wozzeck)
Solo piano
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Portrait of Madame Butterfly (An Operatic Sonata-Fantasy on Themes from Puccini)
Solo piano
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Casta Diva (Aria from Act I, Scene 2 of Bellini’s Norma)
Solo piano
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Performance by Brian Keng-Lun Hsu
Trittico Fantasy (Fantasia on Themes from Puccini’s Il Trittico)
Solo piano
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Vissi d’arte (Aria from Act II of Puccini’s Tosca)
Solo piano
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Scenes from Childhood (Schumann)
Oboe and string trio
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Jonny Spielt auf (Krenek)
Violin, clarinet and piano
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Conlon Nancarrow Arrangements
Sonatina
Piano Duet
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Solo piano
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Study for Player Piano #15
Solo piano OR piano duet
Performance by Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo
Studies for Player Piano #1, 2, 3c, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 16
Chamber ensemble
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Listen to Ensemble Modern:
Study #14
Bass clarinet, celesta, harpsichord, double bass
Study #17
Xylophone, vibraphone, harpsichord
Study #18
Xylophone, harpsichord
Study #19
Xylophone, marimba, piano, harpsichord